Your server as a function

Authors:
Marius Eriksen
Affiliations:
Twitter Inc.
Venue:
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Building server software in a large-scale setting, where systems exhibit a high degree of concurrency and environmental variability, is a challenging task to even the most experienced programmer. Efficiency, safety, and robustness are paramount---goals which have traditionally conflicted with modularity, reusability, and flexibility. We describe three abstractions which combine to present a powerful programming model for building safe, modular, and efficient server software: Composable futures are used to relate concurrent, asynchronous actions; services and filters are specialized functions used for the modular composition of our complex server software. Finally, we discuss our experiences using these abstractions and techniques throughout Twitter's serving infrastructure.